Core Team

Neeraj Agarwal

Neeraj trained as a Mechanical Engineer from IIT Delhi in 1985. After dabbling in manufacturing, process industry, IT and training he moved to NIIT in 1993.

Prior to his appointment as Project Director for Affirmative Action at NIIT, Neeraj was spearheading the global Content and Publishing group of the Enterprise Learning Solutions Business at NIIT that is involved in developing eLearning content for NIIT's customers worldwide. He has led some of the largest projects of Enterprise Learning Solutions business successfully and was instrumental in setting up the factory model of content development....a first for India.

Neeraj also oversaw research and learning kiosk implementation by Hole-in-the-Wall Education Ltd. and now has moved full time into setting up employability training projects for rural and urban underprivileged youth in India with the NIIT Foundation. Pilot centers for both rural and urban settings are already operational and now work is on to scale these across India. With over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, Neeraj brings with him a vast expertise in learning solutions and large project implementation.

Sapna Moudgil

Sapna has 17 years of experience in the Education industry, primarily in the e-learning domain. She started her career with NIIT in their instructional design group. In 1995, she joined InfoPro Corporation where she spent over 14 years executing various roles in Technology, Business Strategy, Content Delivery and Customer Management. Experience in handling the P&L responsibility for over 4 years for InfoPro Learning helped her gain an overall business understanding of the international learning industry.

In her present role, she is the Implementation Head in the Affirmative Action group of NIIT Foundation (NF). She is currently responsible for setting up training centers in urban slums that equip slum youth to gain employment in organized industry such as Retail and BPO. Her responsibilities include student enrollments, student placements, course effectiveness and sustainability of the career development centers.

Sapna has a Bachelor in Mathematics from St. Stephens College, Delhi University and a Masters in Computer Application from Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad. She is currently pursuing a Certificate Course in Business Excellence from Columbia Business School, NY, USA.

Vivek Rana

Vivek has been associated with NIIT for more than 18 years. He joined the R&D center and was part of a team that designed and developed many products from concept level. He is also co-inventor in at least 3 patents awarded to NIIT Limited. He did the first Hole-in-the-Wall experiment with Dr. Sugata Mitra (then Chief Scientist, NIIT Ltd.). He has been conferred Award for Excellence three times in a row.

At present he is Head - Technology Implementation with NIIT Foundation and is also responsible for setting up of the centers under various initiatives of Affirmative Action Group.

He has a Diploma in Electronics and a degree in commerce. He has a passion for graphics and handles all the basic graphic requirements of Affirmative Action Group.

Tulika Mehra

Tulika has completed graduation from Delhi University and moved on to do Post Graduate Diploma in Special Education from Action for Abilities, Development and Inclusion (AADI- formerly The Spastics Society of Northern India). Post the 14 month long course, she joined her first job, with AADI, which took her to the heart of rural Haryana and into homes of several children and adults with neurological disabilities.

The life time experiences from those years re-affirmed the belief that there was so much work to be done and the development sector was where she belonged. Since then, 2001, there has been no looking back. From the year 2004- 2006, she went to Mumbai to pursue M.A. in Social Work, from TISS and did her specialization in Urban and Rural Community Development. Since 2006, she has been associated with a few NGOs and gradually her focus shifted to working with youth from urban slums, on the issue of employability.

Currently, at NIIT Foundation (NF), she is engaged in community mobilization, wherein the focus is to reach out to the maximum number of youth and encourage them to join the Career Development Centers, running in their communities. The work also entails working closely with the partner NGOs and other stakeholders, who play a crucial role in developing and shaping mind sets of the young adults (parents, schools etc.).

Amar Gupta

Amar is associated with NIIT for last 7 Years. He joined the NIIT ILS center as a faculty and got promoted first to Center Manager and then to Operations Manager where he managed education delivery and placements for 8 centers. During this period he has been awarded with Power2 NIIT twice and once with Award for Excellence at Annual Day. He has good experience in operation and used to provide training on various technologies.

Presently at NIIT Foundation (NF), he is managing District Learning Center (DLC) and HOH project, where he takes care of education delivery, student placement and project sustainability, looking forward to expand the horizons of DLC taking it to different parts of India.

He has completed Diploma in software and Masters in Computer Application (MCA); a born techie who likes to do innovations with technology.

Satanjib Baral

Satanjib has twelve years of wide experience in corporate sector with some reputed organizations like JK Technosoft in sales and Sita World Travel for brand promotion. His passion to work in the social sector guided him to work with leading philanthropy organization like Deepalaya and AIFT as a fundraiser and implementer.

His present profile in NIIT Foundation is as the frontline of the fundraising process and raise revenue for the organization. He is responsible for promoting and building lasting relationship between NIIT Foundation and funding organizations and individuals. The work entails to engage the key stake holders by exchanging ideas to stimulate a new culture of giving in a creative way.

Satanjib is a commerce graduate and an MBA (specialization in Marketing). Besides, he has completed PGDCA and a certificate course in Instructional Designing.